Necktie-fastener



(No Model.)

B. WOODRUFP.

' NEGKTIE FASTENER.

Patented Sept. 4, l8 88.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EBER \VOODRUFF, OF HIGHIVOOD, ILLINOIS.

NECKTI E-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,128, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed April 15, 1887.

lb aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBER WooDRUFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Highwood, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckties, of which the following is a specification, to wit:

This invention relates to neckties; and it consists in certain novel details of the construction and arrangement of the same, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a tie with my invention applied. Fig. 2 is a section through a collar and my tie, and Figs. 3 and 4 are different forms of the same device.

a represents a necktie of any desired style or size, and a the band, all of which are made in any desired or suitable way, and are not necessary to further describe herein.

In the lower edge of the neckband, either stitched upon or run within it, I place an elastic cord, 7), which I prefer to make slightly shorter than the neckband, in order that it shall have a tendency to gather the edge of the band.

\Vhen this tie is passed around the neck and secured, the cord draws the lower edge of the band under the collar, and by its contraction holds it there, so that all tendency of the Serial No. 234,928. (No model.)

band to rise is obviated. This is well shown in Fig. 2.

I do not always use an elastic cord for this purpose, an ordinary cord of sufficient size, or a welt formed on the material of the band, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, being often sufficient, forming a projection along the edge of the neckband,which will catch under the edge of the collar and serve the same purpose. These forms I deem to be substantially equivalent and in no sense a departure from the spirit of my invention.

It will be obvious that this device is applicable to any and all kinds of neckties which use a neckband, whether this band is simply to secure the tie proper or is in itself a tie the ends of which are crossed and tied, as in some kinds of these articles.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the neckband of a scarf, of an elastic cord shorter than said band and secured along its lower edge, whereby when the necktie is adjusted to the neck the lower edge of said band will be drawn under the lower edge of the collar by contraction of the elastic cord, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EBER VVOODRUFF.

XVitnesses:

W. O. MoARTHUR, W. S. MOARTHUR. 

